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<h1 class="topictitle1">What Can I Do to Add User Permissions on vCenter?</h1>
<div><p>VMware user permissions must be added on vCenter. Otherwise, VDDK initialization will fail. The following part uses VMware 7.0 as an example. The operations for other versions are similar.</p>
<ol><li>Log in to the vCenter Server on a browser.<p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164813994__en-us_topic_0000002200055033_en-us_topic_0000001839187061_p171383317558">Login address: <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164813994__en-us_topic_0000002200055033_b1897092811206">https://</strong><em id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164813994__en-us_topic_0000002200055033_i5970162819207">vCenter Server IP address</em></p>
</li><li>Right-click the target vCenter and select <span class="uicontrol"><b>Add Permission</b></span> from the shortcut menu.</li><li>Specify <span class="parmname"><b>Domain</b></span>, <span class="parmname"><b>User/Group</b></span>, and <span class="parmname"><b>Rule</b></span>, and select <span class="parmvalue"><b>Propagate to children</b></span>.</li><li>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b>OK</b></span>.</li></ol>
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